quarry

Example Sentences

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One sub plays the quarry and the other helps hunt.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

"We have collected over 50,000 fossil specimens from a single quarry that is 12 metres high, 30 metres long and eight metres wide," added the lead author of a new study in the journal Nature.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

Finally, Marilyn is not presented as a cipher to be solved or quarry to be caged.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026

A quarry in Oxfordshire revealed one of the world's largest-ever dinosaur trackway sites, with around 200 enormous footprints left behind 166 million years ago.

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2025

“It is some way from the quarry, where most of the blasting is done, and you won’t have to run so often.”

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya